“You can’t take the points away from him and give them to Mark Webber –
that’s now history and Sebastian has the benefit of those seven additional
points.
“You can’t really fine him, it is almost irrelevant to fine him, so the
only purposeful way to bring him to book is to say ‘you will stand out one
race’.”
Webber and Vettel’s relationship has been particularly fractious since they
crashed into each other while disputing the lead of the 2010 Turkish Grand
Prix. They also fell out over Vettel being given first call on a new front
wing at the British Grand Prix later in the same season.
The tension between the two has lingered ever since, and Watson expects Red
Bull to face a real battle getting the pair to work together between now and
the end of the season.
“I think once the blood has cooled down and the team get the two drivers
together, Webber will see the season out, but it will be a very fractious
relationship,” he added.
“I don’t know what favours Mark Webber can be asked to provide to
Sebastian Vettel if that should ever arise in the future.”
Was Sebastian Vettel right to disobey team orders?
Former Formula One star Gerhard Berger said that Vettel’s actions indicate an “extremely
selfish” streak that the very best drivers need.
Berger, who won 10 grands prix during 14 seasons in F1 up until 1997, pointed
out what Vettel did was nothing new and feels the 25-year-old German was
merely showing the natural instincts that are required to get to the top of
the sport and stay there.
“If you remember back in history these things always happen,” he
said.
“To be a race winner you need to be very, very talented but to be a world
champion, or to be world champion three, four, five times, you need to be
extremely selfish,” said Berger.
“What I want to say is these boys have such a big killing instinct. What
leads them to three, four, five-times world championships. In these moments
they are stressed by the situation, they just cannot follow their brain,
they just do what their instincts are telling them,” he told BBC Radio
Five Live.
“So of course after the race he is saying he is very sorry about it and
that he cannot sleep, (but) I think he sleeps very well because this is his
nature.
“But on the other side, this is part of his success. And nobody, no team,
no team chief, no team-mate, nobody is going to change it.”
“I think maybe he’s the best guy at the moment in the field. He has all
the things what you have to be to be the world champion, world champion
again and again world champion.”